Luxury escorts in Thun

Thun is where the Bernese Mittelland ends and the Oberland begins: the Aare pours out of the lake through the middle of town, the twelfth-century Zähringen castle watches from its hill, and the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau stand across the water like a made promise. The old town's raised walkways — shops below, promenade above — are unique in Switzerland, and the surfers who ride the river wave under the Mühleplatz give the medieval centre an unexpected pulse.

For our purposes Thun is both a destination and a door. As a destination: dinner in the old town or out along the north shore, where the lakeside pavilions at Hünegg and Oberhofen serve summer evenings that end with the Alps turning rose across the water. As a door: Interlaken, Grindelwald and the Jungfrau railways, Kandersteg and the Oeschinensee — the whole Oberland — begin here, and an engagement based in Thun can reach any of it and be back for dinner. Companions speak German and English and are as happy on a boat deck as in a dining room; Bern is twenty minutes away.